Have you been here?

"My favorite bar to visit, from my traveling band days to now as a Big Star whiskey guy, is Nachbar in Louisville's Germantown. It's a dive bar, I guess, but what does that even mean? It's cavernous, the whiskey selection is amazing, they have deep Belgian lists for draft—St. Bernardus on tap!—and the jukebox is banging; Def Leppard's Pyromania to the Minutemen and Velvet Underground, so you can cover your guilty pleasures and cool points. Shot of Old Fitzgerald free-poured, too. Bar staff is friendly but doesn't need to crush that hospitality angle, because it's a bar and we all know we're there to drink."—Laurent Lebec, beverage director of Chicago's Big Star